Aside from what we learn through his own paintings and writings, little is known about Paul Gauguin’s time in Tahiti, clouding the artist’s exploits in the South Pacific in a self-eulogized mystery.

Raiatea’s tempo carries a deeper resonance. Revered as the cultural heart of French Polynesia, Marae Taputapuatea —a UNESCO ...

A prized and rare sculpture by Paul Gauguin that was acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum for a reported $3 million to $5 million has been deemed a fake. Researchers made the change in attribution ...

Paul Gauguin, "Self-portrait with Halo and Snake" (1889), oil on board (image public domain via National Gallery of Art, Washington) Paul Gauguin frequently called himself a "savage from Peru." Forget ...

A work supposedly made by Gauguin has now been called into question. Vukan Vujović / Facebook “The work was included by the Wildenstein Institute in their Gauguin catalogue raisonné in 1964 and Tate ...

In Tales, Gauguin lists 40 artists he admires. Van Gogh is included at the very end of the list, although nothing more is said about him, despite the fact that Gauguin lived and worked with him for ...

The French artist Paul Gauguin’s paintings inspired by Polynesia are renowned and influential for their brilliant color, exotic locales and air of mystery. Yet Gauguin was in his 40s before he left ...

In 1890, at the age of 42, Paul Gauguin -- a merchant seaman, successful Paris stockbroker, full-time eccentric and Sunday painter -- was about to fulfill a romantic dream to go to the South Seas and ...